Know what I love about summer? Not having to get up with the alarm on the days that I work. The days of sleeping in are numbered. School starts a week from tomorrow. No more sleeping in.
Mia had gotten herself adopted for the night by the Lacy's, so Thomas and I finished up his school supply shopping this evening after soccer practice tonight. We dashed over to the mall after practice, with the intention of getting him some shorts. He only has one nicer pair of shorts...the others are all gym short type. I thought he'd like to dress a little nicer for 8th grade. They had VERY few pairs of shorts to choose from at Penney's, where we started looking. By the time we figured that out, it was almost time for the mall to close. We might go back tomorrow and look somewhere else.

He also needs new tennis shoes. I swear there should be some sort of government funding for moms of teenage boys whose feet refuse to stop growing so fast. We looked briefly at Foot Locker, but the pair he liked was $92. That ain't happening. We'll keep looking.

So last night I was at Walmart, right after working my 12 hour shift. We needed groceries. I couldn't put it off any longer. I was exhausted, my feet hurt, my back hurt, and I was crabby. Guess what? I got stuck with the slowest cashier in the store. Her name is Chandra. DON'T go through her lane if you can help it. I swear, it was like she was in slow motion. AND, she had to look at every item I bought, examining it before she put it across the scanner. Remember the episodes of Seinfeld where Elaine is SCREAMING inside her head on the plane, at the guy next to her (who is sleeping), and she needs him to wake up so she can get by and go pee? She's screaming in her head "wake UP!!!" at the guy. Also there's the one where she's on the subway that has stalled and she's again screaming inside her head for the subway to move. Well, that was me, last night at Walmart, screaming inside my head for "Chandra" to HURRY THE HELL UP LADY!!!" It was actually kind of funny....there I was....Elaine Bennis, in Walmart, silent screaming at Chandra. Surely there is some sort of auditing that takes place, and she's required to do so many items in so many minutes. If so, Chandra just might be looking for a new job real soon.